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Charles Kuralt Quotes
A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who cant read. Thats terribly troubling to me. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. Theyd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
I cant remember a time when I didnt want to be a reporter. I dont know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
I cant say that Ive changed anybodys life, ever, and thats the real work of the world, if you want a better society. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
I could tell you which writers rhythms I am imitating. Its not exactly plagiarism, its falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
I didnt like the competitiveness of big-time journalism. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
I dont have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
I dont think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
I dont think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadnt spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didnt have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasnt time enough to read everything I wanted to read. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I dont think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didnt have girlfriends, and really I wasnt a very social boy. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
I think Id have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if Id not lost quite so much sleep. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
I wasnt a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
Im not any kind of social reformer. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isnt in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
Its best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
Look for joy in your life; its not always easy to find. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
My mother, at least twice, cancelled our familys subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
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